Posts made by Ghost

@reimesu Look, you're her RL roommate and I see what you're trying to do, here. I stepped back and am not taking things to the personal level with her, and for whatever reason you've felt the need to get involved, I don't appreciate you taking an opportunity to try to make things personal.

She's your friend. I get it.

Her and I don't see eye to eye on all points, but let's not turn this into some kind of super personal attack internet drama. I made a dark humor joke out of context and backed out of the topic, and you're here trying to stir shit. We've maintained a respectful rapport for some time and I toed a level of discomfort, admitted to it, and stepped aside.

Enjoy your evening. You're looking for a fight. You're not going to get it.

@reimesu and yet in another thread we've been peacefully discussing whether or not someone gave personally identifying information about VASpider.

Stop trying to fabricate a spat.

@Roz Right, that's why I'm stepping back before it turns into a thing.

I'm not looking to make a comment I made in the spirit of sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying to turn into myself or anyone being an outlet for the justifiable anger that should be felt from seeing that kind of abuse taking place.

My joke wasn't intended to make light of the abuse, I didn't make that clear, and in the interest of keeping things copacetic I'm stepping back from this thread for a bit.

I apologize if my joke, intention or not, was offensive to @Cupcake or anyone.

Carry on and have a better day. This week has been a nightmare so far.

I'm gonna step out of this conversation and not deal with you. Cheers.

@Cupcake said in RL Anger:

Edited to add: This wasn't some cutesie college game thing. These man were holding her down and prying her mouth open with their fingers. She was not enjoying herself by any stretch of the imagination.

And yes, thats fucked up and I hope those people wind up in front of cops.

@Cupcake said in RL Anger:

@Ghost said in RL Anger:

@Cupcake said in RL Anger:

So someone - a woman - on my Facebook posted this video of a woman being held down in a chair by a handful of men while they rubbed her lips with lime and then force-fed her a shot of tequila. According to my friend this "how the family plays" and that it was because she'd agreed to do the shot but then backed out.

She could not understand why I had such a horrified and angry reaction to the video.

...was it expensive tequila?

I'm glad you can find the humor in women being physically assaulted! There's not enough of that kind of humor these days.

Right, because I was clearly joking about the abuse as being something hilarious.

Don't start with the high horse thing.

@Cupcake said in RL Anger:

So someone - a woman - on my Facebook posted this video of a woman being held down in a chair by a handful of men while they rubbed her lips with lime and then force-fed her a shot of tequila. According to my friend this "how the family plays" and that it was because she'd agreed to do the shot but then backed out.

She could not understand why I had such a horrified and angry reaction to the video.

...was it expensive tequila?

@Shaggy I love that movie so much.

• Tokyo Ghoul
• Robotech
• Aliens: Colonial Marines
• Orville
• GI Joe
• Solid: The 1970s Blaxploitation RPG
• BPRD
• A semi-original kung fu setting

@Ganymede I love all of the catchy Pho place names around here, like "UnPHOGettable"

@Darinelle I like the Bolts. Tampa also takes very good care of the bolts and loves them.

@Meg I blame your being awesome on you all the time.

Is it okay to admit that I find myself oddly missing the Spice Girls lately?

@Meg told me to ask @Roz why we are talking about non-hockey in a hockey thread.

Jesus, people, move this OtherSportsball talk to Random Bitching.

@Ganymede said in The Hockey Thread:

I mean, they aren't the Flyers

Oh snap.

Yeah I'm not giving up hope on the players. They play their asses off and I have a lot of respect for them. I also think it was a bad call removing Dave Tippett as coach. The roster is a good roster, and now that their goalie situation is less chaotic they should have some movement. Duclair is solid. OEL is solid. They have some decent talent on the roster.

I think their keys to this season will be their need to adjust to a new coaching situation and whether or not the right decisions are made at key times in terms of roster decisions. All too often the Yotes bump up and down from the minors (to try new options) and lose players to waivers. They've got to be careful with that and not be afraid to give the backup goalie more starting time if the primary (such as Smutty with contract clauses) is in a slump.

HOWEVER, the Coyotes have a definite local problem. They're on the far corner of the Phoenix valley so ticket sales are tough, arena management is tough, lots of ownership rotation issues. If the Coyotes win, more ticket sales will help their financial situation, but you can't find Coyotes-branded mercy anywhere in town aside from mall stores that sell every team's jersies.

I hope they do well, I really do, but I'm somewhat a minority in my support for the team. A looooot of hockey fans in AZ usually only buy tickets when their teams are playing, such as my buddies from Buffalo only going when the Sabres are in town.

This really makes me love the players on the roster more, and feel great for them when theyre doing well, because for the most part theyre all playing in a hockey market that only notices them when they're on fire.

Is this like a Vampire Hunter Bloodlust type setting?

I finished Destiny 2's first raid this weekend...

It was like this for about 20 hours across 3 days...

Then...all of the sudden...

If they could only extract the brain fluid of someone at the point of beating a Destiny raid (for the first time) and turn it into a pill form...depression would be cured.

You have to do the parts in order until you beat it once, so here's the approximate # of tries it took for the maybe 6 different teams I played with across the weekend until finally beating Calus.

• Part 1: Royal Baths (25-30 tries)
• Part 2: Royal Gardens (50-60 tries)
• Part 3: The Games/Obstacle course (10 tries)
• Part 4: Emperor Calus (30-40 tries)

But I did it! GO FUCK YOURSELVES PEOPLE WHO DID IMPORTANT LIFE WORK, HAD SEX, OR IMPROVED YOURSELVES OVER THE WEEKEND.

@Auspice The Coyotes drama is insane.

Gretzky and Moyes owned the Coyotes and tried to rush-sell the Coyotes to move the team to Ontario. So they tried to rush them into bankruptcy, but the NHL RACED to Phoenix to stop it all, because the NHL never agreed to the team's move.

For a while the Coyotes were owned by the NHL, which to date has been the best years of their franchise since the 96-99 roster (because WTF...Tkachuk, Roenick, Mike Gartner, Teppo, Tverdovsky, Khabibulin) and cut deeper into the playoffs than they ever did as a franchise (fmr. Winnipeg Jets).

But since the NHL found an ownership group it's been a mess. Glendale is diverting funds from road maintenance and teacher salaries to keep paying for the arena/team, there's been shady deals between the city of Glendale and ownership, and the Phoenix doesnt have a lot of passion for hockey or the Coyotes.

As a longtime supporter, I'm personally hoping Quebec City, Seattle, or any of these other hopeful cities make a decent bid and my Yotes move to a city/ownership situation that will take care of them. When that happens, I'll definitely be buying new hockey sweaters.

@Ganymede

Okay, okay, you make some really fine points and I will concede to you on the topic of Ovie. Collect your win.

On the topic of the Yotes, I've been avidly following them for years and have friends who have worked inside of the org. It was a mess when Gretzky/Tocchet were coaching, but that's a story for another time.

Az waited far, far too long tangled in Smitty's trade clauses, up to the point of sports psychologist visits. He was amazing in their franchise historic playoff run, but hasn't been the same since his concussion. At the time the decision was made to trade Dubnyk to the Wild, though, he was putting up far better numbers than Smitty.

The Yotes have been in a rebuilding slump and mired with an unstable ownership situation for over a decade. They've been trading players in the last year of their contracts right before the trade cutoff deadline with the assumption that if these playoff teams don't renew their contract they can get the players back. They did this multiple times with Hanzal, Vrbata, etc.

It's just a mess and I hope Domi and their new squad can get some decent work done, but with their arena, financial, and ownership situation in constant disarray they very well may still have problems hanging onto top talent (why play for AZ for X when Dallas offers you Y? Such was the case in a personal fave of mine: Vernon Fiddler).

Yotes are hockey team worth loving and I'm gonna miss Doan, but this back office stuff is just horrid.

Here's a picture of Chad Kroeger from Nickelback cheering on the Detroit Red Wings with Kid Rock.

This is all you need to know about the Detroit Red Wings.